[TUHS] dmr streams & networking [was: Re: If not Linux, then what?]
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Sat Aug 31 15:37:32 AEST 2019
On Fri, 30 Aug 2019, Clem cole wrote:
> Btw. The issue with the 68k was Nick Tredenick’s original Microcode did
> not save enough information during some of the faults. Les Crudele once
> told me, that it turns out he had tried to fix it but there were a
> series of errors and some short cuts they used to fit it in the store.
> They gave up trying to fix it as the part was purely skunkworks and they
> could not respin it at the time. After it succeeded and were a real
> project, the difference between the original and the 10 was Nick redid
> the microcode but they had made a larger microstore - otherwise
> basically the same Si.
Yep, that certainly rings a bell. ISTR that Sun had a board with the two
CPUs, one keeping an eye on the other.
Ah, those were the days :-) Now, we just have to put up with Intel,
although I believe the ARM is much better.
-- Dave
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